CFTC activates regulatory plan B as congressional crypto legislation stalls indefinitely
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The CFTC opened an advance rulemaking process for crypto market rules focused on retail trading with leverage, margin, or financing, and set a 60-day public comment window once the notice is published in the Federal Register. The proposal would create separate tracks for crypto asset transactions and crypto asset markets, while leaving spot markets outside the first phase and keeping mandatory movement of trading to federally regulated platforms for Congress.
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Retail crypto traders on registered exchanges are the group most directly affected today, because the first phase of the CFTC effort centers on leveraged, margined, and financed trading. Exchanges and market participants that want to offer those products now see a formal federal comment process in motion, rather than only informal discussion.
What changes in practice is that the CFTC has opened a rulemaking track for CTX and CAM, which means proposed federal terms for these retail crypto products are being developed under agency authority. What does not change yet is that the notice is still an early-stage step, and spot markets are not automatically brought into the first round of coverage. (per tokenpost.com)
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